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Originally posted by raynor:
If I take an object with arbitrary mass and vector, it sounds to me like you are saying that when it approaches a stellar body of planetary mass or larger, there is a 100% guarantee that said object will enter into stable orbit around the stellar body?
Fascinating...
Noooo. I'm saying that the Captain of said object would put his ship in orbit, assuming that he's not suicidal.
The other thing that I'm saying is that anything
already in orbit will not fall
out of orbit just because its orbiting a black hole.